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What we learnt building Campaign Monitor

Posted by David Greiner on October 18, 2006 9:45 AM

Late last month Ben and I were lucky enough to be invited by the lovely Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp to present at Web Directions South, Sydney's premier web design conference. It was a very cool experience for the both of us. We're certainly not seasoned public speakers but everything came together quite well and we were lucky enough to get some great feedback.

Our talk covered how the idea for Campaign Monitor was born, and what we learnt on the way such as deciding what to build, pricing, building on the side, marketing and supporting a web app from Sydney.

Download the podcast of our talk (41 minutes, 27 seconds - 18.9mb)

John and Maxine have been kind enough to make both the slides, transcripts and podcasts for each talk, including our own, available to anyone free of charge. Also, if you're going to be in Canada early February, do yourself a favour and get to the inaugural Web Directions North, the northern hemisphere version which looks to be a cracker with speakers like Doug Bowman, Cameron Moll and Dan Cederholm to name a few.